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No Stupid Questions · 2025-01-05 · 27 min · 5,018 words

3. What Does It Mean to Be a “Hard Worker”?

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Well, you really have lowered your expectations, haven't you? That's why I'm so happy. I'm Angela Duckworth. And I'm Steven Dubner. I'm a psychologist at Penn and I run an educational nonprofit called Character Lab.

You also wrote the book Grit. Yes. And I am a writer and I host a podcast called Freeconomics Radio. And you wrote the book Freakonomics, among quite a few others. I did.

An you and I became friends. We did, and we discovered that both of us really like to ask each other questions. And there's only one rule. The rule is there are no stupid questions. Today on No Stupid Questions, how do you know if you're a hard worker?

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